CAIRO: At least 16 people were killed, including some military conscripts, in a multi-vehicle crash south of Cairo late on Friday, Health Ministry officials said.

Health ministry spokesman Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar told Reuters that a police car, a taxi and a mini-bus crashed in the village of al-Shousha in the Beni Soueif governorate, killing 16 people and wounding four.

The state-run Al Ahram news portal cited a Health Ministry official in Beni Soueif as saying that among the 16 killed, 13 were conscripts and three were civilians.

Egypt's roads and railways have a poor safety record and Egyptians have long complained that governments have failed to enforce basic safeguards.